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International Consultant to lead the implementation of National Adaptation Planning processVacancy Number: Pr14/00472
Background
The Republic of Moldova’s economy, population, and environment are highly vulnerable to climate variability and change. According to a range of studies, including the Republic of Moldova’s Second National Communication (2nd NC) and Third National Communication (3-th NC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the National Human Development Report (2009/2010 NHDR), the impacts of climate change are expected to intensify as changes in temperature and precipitation affect economic activity. Responding to the risks posed by climate change requires a coordinated and concerted effort on the part of the Government of Moldova. The three year project “Supporting Moldova’s National Climate Change Adaptation Planning Process” supported by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) with funding from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management of the Republic of Austria and implemented by UNDP Moldova in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and its Climate Change Office is responding to this need. The overall goal of the project is to ensure that Moldova has a system and capacities in place for medium - to long term adaptation planning and budgeting with the overall aim to reduce vulnerability of the population and key sectors to the impacts of climate change. The main project objective is to support Moldova to put in place its National Adaptation Planning process contributing to and building upon existing development planning strategies and processes and to implement priority adaptation actions. The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) will be based on the National Adaptation Strategy and will be developed through a country-driven, gender-sensitive and participatory process. In order to achieve the project objective, the project interventions are designed to achieve the following outputs: Output 1. Institutional and policy frameworks for medium- to long-term gender-sensitive adaptation planning and budgeting are in place. Output 2. Institutional and technical capacities for iterative development of comprehensive NAP strengthened. Output 3. Adaptation interventions in priority sectors implemented including demonstration projects at a local level to catalyze replication and up-scaling. This assignment will contribute to attainment of the Output 1, which aims a developing country-driven, gender-sensitive and participatory National Adaptation Plan as well as an institutionalised, iterative adaptation planning process, taking into consideration vulnerable sectors, groups, communities and ecosystems and should engage all relevant stakeholders. The Project will contract an International Consultant on NAP to climate change adaptation to support the team of ICs and NCs to carry out a comprehensive institutional and capacity assessment of key sectors: water, agriculture, health, energy, transport, regional development. It is expected that the works will be done through intensive consultations with all stakeholders involved in the NAP process. Necessary literature review, policy and documents analysis, as well as multi-stakeholder round table consultation will be organized to discuss NAP roadmap and process. The NAP process is a cross - sectorial process involving a number of relevant ministries, policy makers, socio-economists, scientists, engineers, NGOs, civil society, therefore it is important to involve these key stakeholders in the process from the very beginning, so that they can understand better NAP roadmap and implementation process. The International Consultant will be assisted by the National Consultants and will work under guidance of Project Manager and UNDP country office. He/she will also work closely with the respective national partners, including state institutions, local authorities, civil society and international organizations. Meetings with the relevant stakeholders will be organized by the NCs. Scope of work
The objective of the assignment is to develop a country-driven, gender-sensitive and participatory National Adaptation Plan to climate change of Republic of Moldova, taking into consideration vulnerable sectors, groups, communities and ecosystems. For detailed information, please refer to the Terms of Reference. Requirements for experience
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Documents to be included
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications: 1. Proposal: Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work including information on previous similar assignments; 2. Financial proposal; 3. Personal CV or P11 including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references. Financial proposal
The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days). All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP does not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between UNDP Moldova and the Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. Two travel missions are envisaged under this assignment - two 5 day missions to Moldova comprising meetings with Project team, National Consultants, concerned UNDP Project team, relevant national stakeholders.
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